Obama to take on ‘don’t ask’policy at Pentagon

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

President Obama will focus "at the right time"on how to overturn the "don’t ask,don’t tell"ban on gays serving openly in the military,his national security adviser said Sunday.

"I don’t think it’s going to be —it’s not years,but I think it [...]

Pentagon Begs For $68 Million For Bombs While Obama spends billions

Military and Aerospace Electronics

The Pentagon is asking Congress for money to speed deployment of the 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker busting super bomb on the B-2 stealth bomber for potential use in heavily defended areas of the world,such as Iran and North Korea.

The U.S. Department of [...]

Obama Asks Congress for the Kind of War Money He Once Opposed

By Andrew Taylor,Associated Press

President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday for $83.4 billion for U.S. military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan,pressing for special troop funding that he opposed two years ago when he was senator and George W. Bush was president.

Obama’s request,including [...]

DoD officials vow secrecy on budget

 

By JOHN T. BENNETT ,Defense News

Gag orders have gone out to the Pentagon

The Obama administration has directed defense officials to sign a pledge stating they will not share 2010 budget data with individuals outside the federal government.

In an undated non-disclosure agreement obtained by Defense News,[...]

Obama Calling for Defense Budget Cuts

 

By FOXNews

Obama sees defense as place to cut budget

The Obama administration has asked the military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon’s budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent —about $55 billion —a senior U.S. defense official tells FOX News.